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White House accuses Fox News of 'waging war against Obama |
The White House has gone on the offensive against
its critics in the press, singling out Fox News and going so far as to accuse
the News Corp.-owned network of waging a "war against Barack Obama". The offensive
comes despite a reported meeting last month between senior Obama adviser David
Axelrod and Fox News chairman and chief executive officer Roger Ailes, reports
The Telegraph. According to the paper, Anita Dunn, communications director, has
led the offensive. The unusual White House campaign comes as President Obama faces
mounting opposition to his health care reforms, growing concern over the situation
in Afghanistan and a continuing general economic malaise. The President also suffered
a setback recently when his personal effort to win approval for Chicago to host
the 2016 Olympics was rejected and his Nobel Peace Prize has met with more barbs
than bouquets. Speaking of media magnate Rupert Murdoch's Fox, Dunn told the Times
in an interview published Monday: "We're going to treat them the way we would
treat an opponent, as they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the
White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news
organisations behave." In comments just days earlier to Time magazine, Dunn, a
veteran Democratic Party communications strategist who joined the White House
in May, denounced Fox as "opinion journalism masquerading as news". Appearing
on CNN on Sunday, Dunn said "the reality of it is that Fox News often operates
almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican
Party". She said the White House would not be a "passive bystander" as opponents
try to "tear down the president and his presidency." "We will push back," she
added. The push back has included a blog post on WhiteHouse.gov in which the White
House denounced what it called "Fox lies" and "an attempt to smear the administration's
efforts to win the Olympics for the United States". |
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